Access profile

This master is directed towards professionals with previous university training, on which to build a new advanced training, specialised and multidisciplinary, oriented towards professional specialisation in the Child Life care model.

The master has a double purpose. On the one hand, professionalizing with the objective of training professionals with broad knowledge about the Child Life care model, and on the other hand, researching, equipping students with the required tools to conduct research projects in this sphere.

The master is oriented towards graduates with a high universitary training in the health scope (nursing, medicine, psicology, physiotherapy, speech therapy), in the educational scope (social education, pedagogy, childhood and primary education) and in the social scope (social work), as well as other graduates who accredit a professional career centred in care of the hospitalized child and adolescent.

The master is directed towards graduates with a higher university training.

• Healthcare professionals (nursing, psychology, physiotherapy, medicine, speech therapy, etc.) who wish to develop the Child Life care model in their daily practice.
• Professionals from other fields (education, social work, social education, pedagogy, etc.) who wish to apply the Child Life model to their daily practice.

Although this is a broad access profile, we consider that many of these graduates (or similar) may have a high interest in the paediatric care field, both for study and for work as professionals. In this sense, we understand that with the training complements designed they can easily access the degree and acquire the learning outcomes and the proposed competences.

The Academic Committee of the Master’s Degree may also consider (depending on the availability of places) the acceptance of applications from candidates with a Bachelor’s degree in other degrees and Bachelor’s degrees, who demonstrate more than two years of professional career focused on the field.

Regarding linguistic skills, the student must master Spanish and/or Catalan.

General access requirements

Official access qualifications

In accordance with Article 16 of Royal Ordinance 1393/2007 of 29 October, for access to official university master’s degrees, must have one of the following degrees:

1. Official Spanish university degree.
2. Degree awarded by an institution of higher education in the EHEA States to enable, in the country of dispatch, access to official master’s studies.
3. Foreign degrees without the need for homologation, with the prior verification by the university that these degrees accredit the level of training equivalent to the corresponding official university degrees of the Spanish State.

Specific access requirements

Access to the degree is granted with:

1. Direct access qualifications that do not require additional training:

• Graduates and Bachelors in Nursing
• Graduates and Bachelors in Psychology
• Graduates and Bachelors in Physiotherapy
• Graduates in Medicine and Surgery 

2. Related degrees that require completing training:

• Graduates and Bachelors in Pedagogy
• Graduates in Childhood and Primary Education
• Graduates in Speech Therapy
• Graduates in Social Work
• Graduates in Social Education

3. Other degrees (any situation) provided that professional experience in the field of childcare can be demonstrated and that they will also require additional training:

• Graduates in other disciplines with postgraduate training in musicotherapy, art-therapy, animal-assisted therapy and humor-therapy (clown technicians in hospital).

The Coordinating Committee of the Master’s Degree may also consider (depending on the availability of places) the acceptance of applications from candidates with a Bachelor degree in other degrees and Bachelor degrees, who have more than two years' professional experience focused on childcare.